Category Archives: Grid Chase

The International Grid Chase has been a wonderful distraction this winter and has given me an excuse to spend an hour or two on air almost every day. In fact, when I miss a day, I feel like I’m missing … Continue reading →

I suspect the ARRL IGC website is very much a work in progress. Some “By the end of January” changes were announced, but the leader board is still showing January results. You can click on “February”, but it no longer … Continue reading →

So the first month is under our belt for 2018. DX results were pretty good, already knocking off a couple of my 2018 goals. DXCC Challenge stands at 1281, and 160-meter DXCC is at 48. So lets set new goals … Continue reading →

Back on Oct 3, 120 days ago, I noted that I had uploaded my 7,000th contact into LotW. Today I am happy to note that contact 8,000 has been uploaded. Many of those QSOs (654 of them) are a result … Continue reading →

Confirmation #5000 just came into LotW sometime in the last hour. It was for a contact with Rich WD4JJI, who lives in a antenna restricted community in FLA. By stealth and magic, he has found his way onto the air, … Continue reading →

Like many folks chasing grid squares, I’m spending time on the digital modes. Yesterday was a fairly unusual day for me in that I was able to make contact with places that I usually don’t hear, most likely on the … Continue reading →

Sure enough, within an hour or so, some work was done on the IGC website, and the positions reported have changed around a bit. For example, here in RI, I’ve moved down to 2nd place. The key parameter now is … Continue reading →

The International Grid Chase continues. I’ve managed to put in a few hours each day of the new year to get on the air. I’ve probably had about 20 QSOs a day, and somewhere around half of them have confirmed … Continue reading →

In the past 10 days I’ve worked about 200 stations in the grid chase. A big issue is that less than half of them are confirming via LotW, which is the key for the contact counting. RI, being a small … Continue reading →

Don’t forget that the ARRL International Grid Chase is now underway and runs all of 2018. While there is an implication that this is a “special” event, it really isn’t. Any contact you make that is confirmed in LotW counts. … Continue reading →